![]() ![]() Environmentalism is one of Tolkien’s favorite themes as I understand it, but the drama over chopping down an ancient tree to make way for the orc’s roads went from zero to a hundred in the blink of an eye. Everything happening in the Southlands feels incredibly arch and hyperbolic, including some truly comical elf-fu that I’m pretty sure I was supposed to think was cool. There is a clear effort to echo the way that Peter Jackson’s films dramatize character deaths, but we don’t know these guys at all. It’s troubling to me that, despite how long this episode is (never mind how long it feels) there is not enough substance to justify the heavily scored slow-motion deaths of Arondir’s two elf companions. You might have recognized the name of his son, Isildur? That’s the guy who didn’t throw the Ring into Mount Doom in the prelude to Fellowship of the Ring.ĭYLAN: Yeah, all the plot is happening in Númenor, but all the emotional gravity is being loaded haphazardly onto Arondir, who has been forced to dig tunnels and trenches for the orc servants of Adar-implied to be Sauron himself. Without getting into too much detail about what’s coming (in whatever form it’ll take), Elendil is from late in the Second Age. This has cemented my feeling of “flattened” history from the first two episodes. Jenna, I noticed you scribbling in your notebook a lot as Elendil was being introduced. Today, however, Commander of the Elvish Guard Galadriel (Morfyyd Clark) and her accidental human companion Halbrand (Charlie Vickers) are not terribly welcome there, even after being rescued by the stalwart sea captain Elendil (Lloyd Owen). Can this latest on-screen voyage to Middle-earth satisfy both a diehard with the wisdom of the Eldar and your average Sam, Pip, or Merry?ĭYLAN: This week’s episode, “Adar,” follows three of the show’s ongoing plotlines, but the bulk of its 64 minutes is spent on the island of Númenor, a human nation that once allied with the elves. For more information about Branches, visit the Branches web site or Branches on Pinterest.Artist/JRR Tolkien devotee Jenna Kass and TV critic/fantasy philistine Dylan Roth are a married couple who have joined forces to review the new original series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books are designed to boost reading confidence and stamina. The Scholastic Branches line is solely made up of series books to encourage young readers to return to their favorite characters again and again. Branches series span many different genres, and Scholastic aims to have a series for every reader. There are 17 series currently in the marketplace, including The Notebook of Doom, Owl Diaries, Dragon Masters, and Eerie Elementary. Scholastic launched the Branches illustrated early chapter book line in May 2013, and already has more than 12 million books in print. Want more Notebook of Doom? Check out all the other titles in the series right here! Scroll down for a sneak peek of the first few pages! But first, they'll have to battle her monster army in the ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN! ready to take on a whole ARMY of monsters? Alexander, Rip, and Nikki need to find the BOSS-MONSTER's secret hideout and steal back the notebook. The Notebook of Doom series follows Alexander Bopp, who has moved to a new town where he uncovers all sorts of monsters! In this latest book, the Super Secret Monster Patrol has protected Stermont from all kinds of monsters. Alexander Bopp and The Notebook of Doom are back in book #13: Battle of the Boss-Monsters, and you can start reading it right here!
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